28 June 2006

You’re welcome to your own opinion, but a mountain doing 200km/hr is not something I’d be particularly be interested in being around at the time.

Apparently, lava intrusions through vertical cracks (“dikes”) into a confined fluid-layer drove the move. Kind of like the whistle on a pressure-cooker — but scaled up a little & heated by lava, not a stove.

One of the scientists involved (Aharonov) reckons that the Canary Islands might one day do the same thing. Splash!

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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John Tukey

Better to havean approximate answerto the right questionthan a precise answerto the wrong question.

Bernard Shaw

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Albert Einstein

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